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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 69024, member: 40"]
I'll give you Taj Smith.

Just about all those other guys were the same caliber of recruits as what Marrone is getting. The only difference is that you know how some of their careers turned out already.

And for the record, Derrell Smith was a guy that the academies were looking at; very few were excited about him as a RB prospect, and he ended up shifting over to the other side of the ball before emerging as a top contributor. Hogue was a 4-star recruit, but couldn't even crack the rotation at RB before being shifted to LB...by the new regime. Merkerson got lambasted on this board for three years for sucking before he finally put it together and had a big senior year. Holmes was one of those under the radar Florida kids...like several Marrone has been getting. Sales and Collier contributions combined essentially all came down to Sales having one big game [the bowl game], and otherwise the collective sum of their contributions was basically nil. Bailey is a guy who hasn't started until senior year [devil's advocate--because I like Bailey].

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I think it isn't hard to envision that in a year or two, several of Marrone's recruits will approximate the group you reference above. Players like Shamarko, Pugh, Anderson, P. Thomas, Bromley, West, Goggins, Lyn, Spruill, Dyshawn Davis, etc. are well on their way--and their stories are still being written.

Completely agree that Marrone needs to land a Taj Smith or 3, and it would be great if one of Kinder / Hunt / Broyld ends up being "the guy" we've been waiting for since 1999.
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